Magic Mirror Sayings

#1. He went on to say that if the Wicked Queen were around today, the whole story might have been different, because she would have looked in her Magic Mirror and said, If I got a little laser work around the jaw and eyelids, I might still be considered the Fairest in the Land.

Suzanne Finnamore

#2. Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.

Bill Willingham

#3. There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

Jonathan Stroud

#4. You know, this isn't how I imagined meeting Sophie's first real boyfriend."

"Mom."

Archer gave me a little squeeze. "You mean I'm the first guy your parents have rescued from an enchanted island via use of a magic mirror? I feel so special."

~ Grace, Sophie, Archer

Rachel Hawkins

#5. The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#6. Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

Susan Howe

#7. You mean I'm the first guy your parents have rescued from an enchanted island via use of a magic mirror? I feel special.

Rachel Hawkins

#8. You had a magic mirror that let you see life outside your tiny world. Your castle. I had books. Reading them is like traveling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives. It made life far less...lonely.

Liz Braswell

#9. If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Malia Ann Haberman

#11. He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'
-Olivia/Via thinking

R.J. Palacio

#12. I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

Steve Martin

#13. I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

Allen Iverson

#14. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

Laini Taylor

#15. Is Jimmy Hoffa dead or does he work at the National Enquirer with Elvis and Bigfoot?

M.J. McGuire

#16. Maybe the moon just lost herself gazing too long at the brilliance of the sun and that's how she got her glow.

And maybe we're made of the same
mysterious sort of magic that makes us magnify and mirror whatever we look at the most.

Cristen Rodgers

#17. If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

Richard Bach

#18. We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

Kevin Nealon

#20. Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.

Andrei Makine

#21. It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.

Neil Gaiman

#22. pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Anonymous

#23. Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Steven Weber

#24. His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,

Leah Stewart

#25. The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Ma Jian

#26. To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Don Tapscott

#27. In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears ... life!

Faraaz Kazi

#28. Outside her mother's old bedroom, wielding spiky spears and magic staffs. They nodded to her as she opened the door. "Remember," said one, "never touch the mirror." "I remember," she said. The room was

Shannon Hale

#29. She wasn't looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.

Denny B. Reese

#30. Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say.

Craig A. Falconer

#31. There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#32. The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright-and in the long run, that's how it will be.

David Gelernter

#33. With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

J.J. Abrams

#34. Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty!

Rumi

#35. Aren't you going to ask me if I'm all right?" I say.
"No, I'm pretty sure you're not all right."
He shakes his head. "I'm going to ask you not to make any decisions until we've talked
about it.

Veronica Roth

#36. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.

Vernon Sproxton

#37. Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

John Desmond Bernal